11 Jul 2009

Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP)
Uyghur American Association, Washington, DC, US
Self-description:
"The Uyghur Human rights Project (UHRP) was founded by the Uyghur American Association (UAA) in 2004 with a supporting grant from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). UHRP's mission is to promote human rights and democracy for the Uyghur people, and to raise awareness of human rights abuses that occur in East Turkestan, referred to by the Chinese authorities since 1955 as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). UHRP is a part of the Uyghur American Association, which is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, tax-exempt community membership organization."
Site contents:
* About; * Featured Articles [over 120 pages of articles - ed.]; * Issues (Strike Hard Campaign, Cultural Assimilation/Economic Segregation, Refugees, Religious Persecution, Political Prisoners, Uyghurs in Guantanamo); * UHRP Reports [UHRP Reports, and Reports by other NGOs and governments - ed.]; * Press Releases; * Headlines [over 170 pages of headlines - ed.]; * Links (Uyghur Organizations and Sites, Tibetan Organizations, China Human Rights, Worldwide Human Rights Organizations); * Contact; * Employment; * Support.
URL http://www.uhrp.org/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.uhrp.org/
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 3,000 [in fact, over 8790]